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dfc on Dec 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most lives are lived by default

Thank you for the education. Is dropping the ius/us (I forget the term high school latin was a long time ago) a common way of translating roman names to german?

gurkendoktor on Dec 7, 2012 | [–]

It seems to be common in English too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_poetry

Ovid, Virgil, Horace...

neumann_alfred on Dec 6, 2012 | [–]

To be perfectly honest I don't know.. I had latin as well, but I gleefully forgot most of it :)

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